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Anyone Can Play Big Brother With BitTorrent

Posted by timothy on from the shrinking-wilderness dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I was at the 3rd USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats yesterday, and there were people from the French Institute for Computer Science who have continuously spied on most BitTorrent users on the Internet for 100 days, from a single machine. They've also identified 70% of all content providers; yes, those guys that insert the new contents into BitTorrent. As a BitTorrent user, I was shocked that anyone with a box connected to the Internet can spy on what everyone is downloading on BitTorrent."

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  1. Re:UNISEX? by 0racle · · Score: 0, Troll

    Well ya. Chicks can't use computers.

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  2. Re:Copyright laws. by pgmrdlm · · Score: 1, Troll

    Going without is making the decesion to not own a copy of the material. By you downloading, you now have in your posession a copy of the material which you never purchased.

    Stealing

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  3. Re:Why are you concerned? by fnj · · Score: 0, Troll

    Horse shit. Making a copy is not stealing. Get your terms right.

  4. Re:Copyright laws. by DarkKnightRadick · · Score: 0, Troll

    Thanks. Not often I receive (or even share) a compliment from /. (:

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  5. Re:An Opportunity by Krneki · · Score: 0, Troll

    Nope, for most of the EU sharing files in a non profitable way will not get you in trouble.

    I'm happy sharing 100GB per day.

    Only the e-fascist countries goes after non-profit file sharers.

    I do feel your pain :(

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